Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominate Beck for the Man of the Year. He has served as a perfect example to union laborers by showing them where their weekly dues end up. I only hope that the Senate investigators continue to probe into the union bosses and rout out the undesirables, silk shirts...
...Perfect Answer. Next morning, reporters could hardly contain themselves while awaiting President Eisenhower's arrival at his regular weekly news conference. Edgar's remarks had already become the subject for serious dissertations by professional budget cutters across the nation. How would the President get out of this one? First crack off the bat, the question came about Edgar's opinions. The President paused for an instant, tapped his finger gently on his desk, grinned and answered. "Edgar," he said quietly, "has been criticizing me since I was five years old." The problem dissolved in a roar...
Repetto, who gave up just two walks while striking out five, was valuably assisted by his teammates, who also could do no wrong. Shortstop Bob Hastings several times made stops deep in the hole and rifled perfect pegs to first to nip Bruin runners. And leftfielder John Getch made two fine catches in the seventh inning to stem the only Brown rally. Although the Crimson was not scintillating at the plate, its hits were timely. They won the game early, scoring four times in the third after two were...
Eric Martin as the "fleshy poet," "with a love for admiration," originally modelled after lilytoting Oscar Wilde--handles his focal part with humour and almost no difficulties, although he did not project as well as might be desired. John Bernard as the "idyllic poet," is absolutely perfect as actor and singer, as he transfers from Renaissance Apollo to a "common, ordinary fellow...
...contractor whose awkward, wrong-foot bowling style has made him the Lucille Ball of TV bowling, recently won him $6,000 and two Fords in a single TV tournament. In another, an East-West TV tournament, he has been rolling up winnings for twelve weeks; if he bowls a perfect game before the cameras (he has come within one strike twice), Campi stands to win $100,000. Bowling against him at Ft. Worth were such other old pros as Detroit's Buzz Fazio and Steve Nagy, veterans of a quarter-century of bowling...